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Hab. — Tasmania: Mount Wellington (including sum- 

 mit), Hobart, Huon River (A. M. Lea). 



A variable species close to suturalis, but prothorax always- 

 entirely black. The elytra are generally of a bright reddish- 

 castaneous, with the suture and a fairly large space about the 

 scutellum black, and the basal half of the sides infuscate : in 

 several specimens the suture is very narrowly infuscate 

 throughout, the rest of the elytra being very brightly coloured ; 

 on another there is a wide feeble infuscate fascia just beyond 

 the middle : occasionally the paler parts of the elytra are of 

 an obscure navous, whilst occasionally they are scarcely paler 

 than the suture : and sometimes they have a decided purplish 

 gloss. 



One male (taken in cop. with a quite normal female) has 

 the elytra entirely dark, and the legs dark except that the 

 bases of the femora, the front tibiae, and bases of the others 

 are of a rather dingy-brown. Another male agrees with this 

 except that its legs (except parts of the tarsi and of the 

 hind tibiae) are entirely fiavous. 



AULETES SUBCALCEATUS, n. sp. 



Black ; elytra of a dingy testaceous, suture darker ; 

 funicle of a dingy testaceous, the scape and club somewhat 

 darker ; legs obscurely testaceous, in parts black or infuscate. 

 Sparsely clothed with greyish pubescence, and with a few 

 semi-erect setae scattered about. 



Head with moderately dense punctures. Rostrum 

 straight ; in male the length of prothorax, in female dis- 

 tinctly longer : feebly dilated from near base to apex ; with a 

 row of punctures on each side. Antennae inserted about one- 

 fourth from base of rostrum, two basal joints stout, subequal 

 in length and each shorter than third. Prothorax dis- 

 tinctly transverse, sides moderately rounded, base and apex 

 equal : with dense and moderately coarse punctures. Elytra 

 parallel-sided to beyond the middle : punctures at base rather 

 larger than on prothorax, becoming smaller elsewhere but 

 everywhere distinct. Length, lj-2 mm. 



Hah.— Tasmania : Frankford, Hobart (A. M. Lea). 



A small dingy species, in general appearance like a very 

 small calceatus, and with a very feeble fringe of whitish 

 pubescence behind the scutellum ; but darker and with coarser 

 punctures. In one specimen the prothorax is black but paler 

 at base and apex, in the others it is of a dingy reddish-brown, 

 but also slightly paler at base and apex. The elytral punc- 

 tures are all clearly denned, and many of them appear to 

 be in feeble rows. 



